top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-24

A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring practices)

http://infotrope.net/2011/07/21/a-note-to-google-recruiters/

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 140 comments

Octopress - A blogging framework for hackers

http://octopress.org/

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 50 comments

Google Plus: Tagging automatically shares private photos

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=52e06725a97fe570&hl=en

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 85 comments

A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

http://www.alittlebitofsomething.co.uk/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 77 comments

Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies

http://blog.radioshack.com/2011/07/21/top-ten-diy-suggestions-from-you/

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 73 comments

Accidental Genius: How To Think

http://www.dextronet.com/blog/2011/07/accidental-genius-summary/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 46 comments

When operating "at web scale", users often simply don't have "real names"

https://plus.google.com/116098411511850876544/posts/4t8sFLLK4hK

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 112 comments

I’ve been suspended from Google+

http://infotrope.net/2011/07/22/ive-been-suspended-from-google-plus/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 73 comments

NoSQL is What?

http://blog.zawodny.com/2011/07/23/nosql-is-what/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 60 comments

As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703749504576172714184601654.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 84 comments

Short array syntax finally in PHP 5.4

http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=313641

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 78 comments

All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm

http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics-neanderthal-110718.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 80 comments

Find is a beautiful tool

http://eriwen.com/productivity/find-is-a-beautiful-tool/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

Cost of False Positives

http://laughingmeme.org/2011/07/23/cost-of-false-positives/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 7 comments

The History of the "@" Symbol (Part 1)

http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/07/the-symbol-part-1-of-2/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

MacPorts 2.0 with Lion support now available

https://trac.macports.org/post/macports-200-now-available/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

Researcher Develops Cocaine Vaccine

http://singularityhub.com/2011/07/24/researcher-makes-a-career-developing-cocaine-vaccine-but-pharmaceutical-companies-won%e2%80%99t-produce-it/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 68 comments

Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24addicts.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Avoid Repeating the Debacle That Was the Space Shuttle

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jul-aug/22-how-to-avoid-repeating-debacle-of-space-shuttle

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 65 comments

Zynga Stole Everything It's Suing Us For

http://www.businessinsider.com/vostu-zynga-stole-everything-its-suing-us-for-2011-7?op=1

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

http://cleartax.in

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

First, Let's Shoot All the Philosophers

http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-lets-shoot-all-philosophers.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 80 comments

Screenfly - mimics devices for website testing

http://quirktools.com/screenfly/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

The Principles of Good Programming

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/chris/the_principle_of_good_programming

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

WebAppKit - create web applications using Cocoa

http://webappkit.org/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

Oracle scrubs site of embarrassing Java blog

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20082151-93/scoop-oracle-scrubs-site-of-embarrassing-java-blog/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

How I Made 50 Friends In One Month

http://30vanquish.com/how-i-made-50-friends-in-one-month/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

Freeform - a meta language that allows defining and extending syntax inline.

http://freeformlang.sourceforge.net/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Escaping Callback Hell with ClojureScript macros

http://brianmckenna.org/blog/cps_transform_js

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments
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